The Mechanism of English StyleOxford University Press, American branch, 1916 - 291 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... bringing them to realize that writing is not a spontaneous and natural activity that happens to succeed better in some cases than in others . Youth has a great deal of faith in its ability to crowd things through by its own sheer energy ...
... bringing them to realize that writing is not a spontaneous and natural activity that happens to succeed better in some cases than in others . Youth has a great deal of faith in its ability to crowd things through by its own sheer energy ...
Pagina 7
... by it . He should think of it as an instrumentality by which he may bring his work ' Henry Seidel Canby in The Atlantic Monthly , June , 1915 . nearer to its fully effective significance . He should not SKILL AS NATURAL OR ACQUIRED 7.
... by it . He should think of it as an instrumentality by which he may bring his work ' Henry Seidel Canby in The Atlantic Monthly , June , 1915 . nearer to its fully effective significance . He should not SKILL AS NATURAL OR ACQUIRED 7.
Pagina 25
... bring them to order by a kind of eliminating definition . A sentence of this sort is the natural expression of that feeling . The next sentence is short as marking a decision reached , but that decision is not perfectly straightforward ...
... bring them to order by a kind of eliminating definition . A sentence of this sort is the natural expression of that feeling . The next sentence is short as marking a decision reached , but that decision is not perfectly straightforward ...
Pagina 34
... bringing sentences together , as it has a livelier sense of action and animation , is more stimulant to the reader and more likely to sharpen his attention . Further , this less formal mode of sentence connection is more in agreement ...
... bringing sentences together , as it has a livelier sense of action and animation , is more stimulant to the reader and more likely to sharpen his attention . Further , this less formal mode of sentence connection is more in agreement ...
Pagina 40
... bring concepts to the mind and others that merely serve to articu- late the sentence , to bind its parts together . Prepositions and conjunctions are obviously articulating words . Verbs are sometimes no more than that , and in ...
... bring concepts to the mind and others that merely serve to articu- late the sentence , to bind its parts together . Prepositions and conjunctions are obviously articulating words . Verbs are sometimes no more than that , and in ...
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Pagina 31 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of...
Pagina 176 - We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice called Bartrum father. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name...
Pagina 124 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Pagina 146 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him...
Pagina 52 - He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men ; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs.
Pagina 123 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as . a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical . terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant.
Pagina 158 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Pagina 42 - Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing. Giants and the Genii, Multiplex of wing and eye, Whose strong obedience broke the sky When Solomon was king.
Pagina 176 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of representment, that I became in doubt which of them stood...
Pagina 120 - I walked," says he, with his own peculiar eloquence, to a neighbouring town ; and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head ; but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give...